Dismantling Glory by Lorrie Goldensohn
Argues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front bringing women and civilians into war discourse. This book discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste.
Lorrie Goldensohn is a superb writer with an exemplary presence of mindHer attention to the largeness of literary being she finds in the poetry of war is balanced by an extraordinary moral and historical wakefulness. Rigorous, open to surprise and terror, she engages us in the struggle to see clearly the illogic of war and, as she says, to keep imaginative faith with the species that wages war and finds ingenious ways to justify itself. Dismantling Glory is a brilliant mosaic, at once learned, dramatic, urgent, mournful and exhilarating. -- Robert Boyers Skidmore College For anyone unacquainted with the history of war poetry in Britain and America during the twentieth century, Goldensohn's book is a good introduction. The Nation
Lorrie Goldensohn is the editor of American War Poetry and the author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, which received a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Her poetry and critical essays have appeared in journals and periodicals since 1965.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231119382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231119380 |
| Title | Dismantling Glory |
| Author | Lorrie Goldensohn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2003-12-10 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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